That limited Brady's chances with an offense that kept the ball for just 23:25.
But the margin for error is smaller after the loss in Green Bay.
The New England Patriots brought the NFL's longest winning streak this season to Green Bay.
The defense stopped the Packers inside the red zone four times, holding them to short field goals. But they let Green Bay keep the ball for 36 minutes, 35 seconds as the Packers converted 10 of their 17 third-down plays.
"That's where that saying comes in, 'It's a game of inches.' It really is," Patriots cornerback Darrelle Revis said. "When you're playing against another great team, you have to be on point at all times, because any error can cost you. We probably had some errors today,
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They continued their cross-country road trip without it.
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They could have gotten the ball back after Green Bay had a third-and-4 at its 43 with 2:28 remaining. But Aaron Rodgers completed a 7-yard pass to a closely guarded Randall Cobb and the Packers ran out the clock.
Now the schedule gets easier with the remaining games against San Diego, Miami, the New York Jets and Buffalo.
After the game, the Patriots flew to San Diego for Sunday night's meeting with the surging Chargers.
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"We had a lot of opportunities to move the ball," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Monday in a conference call from San Diego. "We missed a third-and-1 early in the game. We came up on a fourth-and-1 just short of the first down early in the game. We had a penalty to start the third quarter, so we ended up with some short drives which limited the number of plays that we ran."
The Patriots and Broncos are both 9-3, but New England has the tiebreaker because it beat Denver. They're followed in the AFC by Cincinnati (8-3-1) and Indianapolis and San Diego (both 8-4).
It was a tougher loss to handle than their other two
